RADBMX.CO.UK

Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: rick1970 on February 05, 2011, 08:45 PM

Title: stripping coloured brake levers advice
Post by: rick1970 on February 05, 2011, 08:45 PM
hi,got a set of pink dc tech 4 levers i want to strip back to alloy is this possible and what do i need to do ?
any ideas thanks..  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: stripping coloured brake levers advice
Post by: southern andy on February 05, 2011, 08:47 PM
Oven pride or caustic soda if they're anno. Paint stripper if they're paint.

I think the standard colours are Anno but i'm not sure on pink.
Title: Re: stripping coloured brake levers advice
Post by: brummie on February 05, 2011, 08:48 PM
pink are painted so nitomors
messy job  :-\
Title: Re: stripping coloured brake levers advice
Post by: rick1970 on February 05, 2011, 08:53 PM
excelent cheers for that chaps ,was hoping it would be a diy job rather than send away.thanks  :daumenhoch: :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: stripping coloured brake levers advice
Post by: brummie on February 05, 2011, 08:57 PM
it is dity
nitromors from halfords
paint some on ( use gloves ffs )
watch it bubble
scrape it off
Title: Re: stripping coloured brake levers advice
Post by: rick1970 on February 05, 2011, 09:06 PM
it is dity
nitromors from halfords
paint some on ( use gloves ffs )
watch it bubble
scrape it off

;D yeh remember me dad using it on dinky cars years ago amazing stuff to watch :LolLolLolLol: cheers pal
Title: Re: stripping coloured brake levers advice
Post by: stfc on February 06, 2011, 11:16 AM
If your repainting just wet flat them and repaint, no need to remove all the old paint,
Title: Re: stripping coloured brake levers advice
Post by: Andy68 on February 06, 2011, 08:18 PM
Gonna play Dad now.......... Wear eye protection!!!!! A couple of yrs ago I stripped an old engineers wooden tool chest. I'd finished. picked up some wire wool I'd used and a blob of stripper flicked up off it straight in to my eye! :shocked: The pain...... 3 weeks later after loads of hospital visits I was told I was lucky not to lose my sight...... Would hate it to happen to anyone else.
Title: Re: stripping coloured brake levers advice
Post by: BMX1973 on February 06, 2011, 09:56 PM
put them in a tin with nitromores in overnight and watch the magic in the morning :)
Title: Re: stripping coloured brake levers advice
Post by: rick1970 on February 06, 2011, 10:59 PM
Gonna play Dad now.......... Wear eye protection!!!!! A couple of yrs ago I stripped an old engineers wooden tool chest. I'd finished. picked up some wire wool I'd used and a blob of stripper flicked up off it straight in to my eye! :shocked: The pain...... 3 weeks later after loads of hospital visits I was told I was lucky not to lose my sight...... Would hate it to happen to anyone else.
ouch!! Goggles it is then in a tin overnight..don't plan on repaint maybe just back to alloy then lacker or polish cheers lads :daumenhoch:
SimplePortal 2.3.5 © 2008-2012, SimplePortal